Best English Language Thoughts
251 English Language quotes by 218 unique authors
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
— Henry James
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Language is the dress of thought.
— Samuel Johnson
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
— Samuel Johnson
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There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us,…
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and…
— John Locke
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Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead…
— John McGahern
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
— Herman Melville
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
— H. L. Mencken
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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
— Edward R. Murrow
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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
— George Orwell
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Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with…
— Sarah Palin
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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
— William Penn
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
— Ronald Reagan
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I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.
— Patti Stanger
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
— Billy Sunday
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My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take…
— James Thurber
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More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any…
— John W. Vessey, Jr.
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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
— Derek Walcott
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
— Mae West
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted…
— Walt Whitman
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The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
— Erez Lieberman Aiden
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They had nothing in common but the English language.
— E. M. Forster
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
— Pat Conroy
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